Analysis of the radar reflectivity of aircraft vortex wakes

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 463, Issue , 2002, Pages 121-161

  Shariff, Karim ^a   Wray, Alan ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; AIRCRAFT; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; LIGHT SCATTERING; RADAR; REFRACTIVE INDEX; ROTATIONAL FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

VORTEX WAKES;

WAKES;

AIRCRAFT; RADAR; VORTEX; WAKE;

EID: 0036339980     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112002008674     Document Type: Article

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